“Don Quixote and the Arc of Western Culture.”Keynote Address.Quixote Café: Celebrating 400 Years of Don Quixote. North Dakota State University.Fargo, North Dakota.26 September 2015.

“Don Quixote at the Crossroads.”Keynote Address.The Influence of Don Quixote in the Humanities.41st International Symposium of Hispanic Literature. California State University, Dominguez Hills.Dominguez Hill, California.15 April 2015.

“Cervantes and the Poetics of Performance Space.”Chicago Cervantes Symposium.Instituto Cervantes de Chicago.10 April 2015.

“Cervantes and the Jongleuresque.”Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting.Berlin, Germany. 26 March 2015.

“Adapting or Translating Cervantes’s Texts for the Classroom, the Stage, the Screen, and Other Media.”Roundtable Discussion. Cervantes Society of America Annual Business Meeting and Symposium.Wizard Academy.Austin, Texas.1 Nov. 2014.

“Dogville, Jazz Club Polonia, and the Ethics of Adaptation.”The Comedia: Translation and Performance.Out of the Wings/Association for Hispanic Classical Theatre Joint Conference.Bath, England. 27 November 2013.

“Being and Seeming in Hollywood: Visual Culture, Utopian Desire, and the Postmodern Baroque.” Conference on Image and Illusion in Early Modern Spain. Duke University. Durham, North Carolina. 2-3 October 2008.

“Greenshows, The Terra Nova Consort, and the Early Iberian Stage.” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Michigan. 8 May 2008

“Producers, Consumers, and the Impact on Language.” Response to Papers by Josiah Blackmore and Anthony Parr. 2004 USC-Huntington Library Early Modern Studies Conference. University of Southern California. Los Angeles, California. 1 May 2004.

“‘Corraling’ the Theater: Performative Containment on the Early Modern Stage.” The Poetics of Space. 11th Annual Conference of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, SUNY Binghamton. Binghamton, New York. 11 March 2000.

“Nuevas meditaciones del actor quijotesco.” Meeting of the Southern California Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. California State University, Northridge. Northridge, California. 30 October 1999.

“The Corral and the Movie House: Hegemony, Popular Culture and the Self-Justification of (Re)conquest.” 1998 Modern Language Association Annual Convention. San Francisco, California. 27 December 1998.

“Performance, Cognition, and the Oral Tradition.”Invited Lecture.Department of Classics, Modern Languages, and Linguistics.Concordia University.Montreal, Canada.23 January 2014.

“Intertextuality and Ekphrasis in Los Barracos de Federico’s El caballero de Olmedo.”Invited Lecture.Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.University of Chicago.Chicago, Illinois.25 April 2013.

“Corpus Lorqui: Transformation and Transubstantiation in Los Barracos de Federico’sEl caballero de Olmedo.” Invited Lecture. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. University of Kansas. Lawrence, Kansas. 6 February 2012.

“David Lynch and the Dulcineated World.” Invited Lecture. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Penn State University. University Park, Pennsylvania. 10 February 2011.

“Ugly Betty: Desire, Dulcinea, and Disenchantment in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive.” Invited Lecture. Department of Romance Languages. University of North
Carolina, Greensboro. Greensboro, North Carolina. 23 April 2010.